13 things that do not make sense

New Scientist ^ | 19 March 2005 | Michael Brooks

[cspackler]

Perhaps, so they can use the same ATM faceplate as for walkups, thus not needing separate part numbers.

Okay, I know, people... I was just trying to be humorous!!! Please quit trying to give me real reasons for Braille on drive-up ATMs...

AAauuuugggghhhhh!!!

There, I feel better.

[Physicist]

Hm. I worked in meson physics for a time, but was never assigned a bodyguard. Not being a New Scientist reader, though, perhaps I never needed one.

Then, too, I do suffer from severe hay fever. Hm again.

[longshadow]

Remember what happened to the physicist reading the "New Scientist" in the movie, "The Ipcress File"!

It brought a whole new meaning to the expression "brain drain".....

[hosepipe]

[ Chewbacca is a wookie from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about that; that does not make sense. Why would a wookie, an 8 foot tall wookie, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall ewoks? ]

Easy....
Being a big hairball on a small hairball planet..
Is cross cultural and cross species..
On earth, a water planet, we say, being a big fish in small pond.. same thing..

Also being a big liar in a profession of small time liars can make you rich and famous.. some lawyers call it being successful.. but wookies just see the baldness of it all..

[tortoise]

Interesting article ping.

[Doctor Stochastic]

In the book, the guy who gets killed at the traffic light was actually workin on the "brain drain" problem. He was a statician who noticed that too many British scientists were droppping out of science.

[UCANSEE2]

The article is nonsense. I solved all these problems just last week.

[longshadow]

the guy who gets killed at the traffic light was actually workin on the "brain drain" problem. He was a statician who noticed that too many British scientists were droppping out of science.

I expect that would tend to temper his curiosity .....

[UCANSEE2]

I would ecertainly hope that a blind person would have more sense than to walk through a parking lot to a drive-up ATM.

Why should they walk up? It is a DRIVE-UP.

BLIND DRIVER

[fatboynic]

Bump for later

[Vermont Lt]

bump for later reading

[UCANSEE2]

Why do they say "it's raining cats and dogs."???

[Malsua]

Ping

[Robert A Cook PE]

Yeah. Right. Sure. Uh-huh. Whatever. Of course.

/sarcasm. 8<)

(It's really there because the f**king bureacrazies runnin' the EPA/FHA/Handicapped Access programs don't have enough sense to think rationally, and too power to be told to leave rational people alone, and all the money they want - after all, other people have to spend it to make THEM feel better.

[UCANSEE2]

Where is the holy grail, the missing link, Atlantis, the 100 mpg carburetor, Noah's Ark, and the real killer of Nichole Simpson? What is the truth about area 51, the face on Mars, crop circles, the fake moon landings, UFOs, the shroud of Turin, bigfoot, and the Loch Ness monster? Who wrote Shakespeare, shot Kennedy, built the pyramids?

Send me $50.00 and I'll reveal all.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Medieval (and 19th century Europe!) rains would wash the dead rats and mice out of the gutters and sewers into the streets and into the rivers.

Really hard rains would wash bigger dead animals out as well: so dogs, cats, sheep, piglets, etc would be seen in the rivers and sewers (same thing) floating along.

[Alter Kaker]

I thought lightning struck a caveman's butt and set his loincloth on fire and he somehow decided it was a good thing. :-)

Yeah, but lightning struck many monkeys' buts and they never used fire for anything.

[NautiNurse]

Real men don't need no steenkin directions!

That reminds me of a short drive in Houston that ended up in Galveston. No kidding...

[pharmamom]

Insomniac dyslexic THEOLOGIAN!

[balrog666]

Okay, I'm feeling properly nostalgic - show us your leprechaun!